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netlabs.org: Thanks for the support in January! And now about Qt...

Earlier this year I sent out an email to a list of former netlabs.orgsupporters to make sure I could buy a new server for netlabs. Thehardware started failing after 5 years. Due to the very generousdonations we collected around 3'000 US$ in sponsoring for the newhardware, thanks a lot to everyone! The new server is running forseveral months now and replaced the faulty hardware. This means theservers should be save for approximately the next 5 years.

Now I would like to move the focus to the Qt 5 Project for OS/2. Theport of Qt is a project we started many, many years back. With Qt 4 wewere able to port important software to the OS/2 platform. However, Qt 5is available for 5 years already and new software is running on thisversion of Qt exclusively. Making Qt 5 available on OS/2 will allowporting of new software. As you might now, version 60 of Firefox can nolonger be compiled on OS/2 due to new language requirements (Rustlanguage support). Qt 5 provides QtWebEngine, an engine used by browserslike Falkon (https://www.falkon.org/). It might even be possible to portGoogle Chromium later. In other words, one of them could become amaintained alternative web browser on the OS/2 platform.

The port of Qt 5 is done by bww bitwise works, which was able to financethe development by the community for many months already. However, Qt 5is not a small thing to port, so they need our continuous financialsupport to finish it.

If you would like to contribute you can do that with one-timecontributions or even better, by subscribing to an ongoing contributionon Patreon: